STAPHISAGRIA.
Delphinium staphisagria, Linn.
Natural order
, Ranunculaceæ.
Common names
, Stavesacre; (G.),
Läusesamen; (F.), Staphisaigre.
Preparation
, Tincture of the seeds.
Authorities.
(From Hahnemann, R. A. M. L.)
1, Hahnemann; 2, Cubitz; 3,
Franz; 4, Gross; 5, Gutmann; 6,
Hartmann; 7, Haynel; 8, Herrmann; 9,
Hornburg; 10, Kummer; 11, Langhammer; 12,
Stapf; 13, Teuthorn.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► He was
joyous, enjoyed society, and was good-humored, [11]. [Curative reaction of the organism in a man
of the opposite disposition. -Hahnemann.] ►
Good-humor; he was joyful and conversational, and was happy in his
condition (after thirteen hours), [11].
[Curative reaction of the organism in a man of the opposite disposition.
-Hahnemann.] ► Earnest mood, quiet,
busy with himself, speaks very little, [1].
► Very lachrymose, [1]. ►
Sadness, without ability to assign any reason, [5]. ► Sad; he
fears the worst results from slight causes, and cannot quiet himself, [13]. ►
Mind phlegmatic, depressed, sad, apathetic, indifferent to everything,
without peevishness or without being weak, [5]. ► Her
mind seemed dead and sad, though not with weeping, [1]. ► Morose;
she frequently cries at nothing, [1].
[10.] ►
She was full of grief all day; she grieved over her condition and wept;
nothing in the world pleased her (after fifty hours), [1]. ► She
will hear or know nothing from any one; she wraps up her face and weeps
aloud without cause, [1]. ► Anxious and fearful, [1]. ► Great
anxiety; he dreads the future, [8].
► Violent internal anxiety, so that
he could not remain in any place, but without complaints, [1]. ► Anxious
thoughts and events in the past came to him as if the past were present
before him, which caused anxiety and anxious perspiration, then it
became black before his eyes; he did not know whether the images were
real or illusory, then everything seemed different, and he lost all
desire to live, [1]. ► (When walking rapidly, it seems as though
some one were coming behind him, which causes anxiety and fear, and he
is constantly obliged to look around), [1].
►► *Very peevish (in the morning);
he wishes to throw from him everything which he takes in his hand,
[1]. ►
Fretful and sad, [12]. ► Fretful and peevish all day; does not
know himself on account of despondency, and is extremely depressed
(after thirty-seven hours), [1]. [20.] ►
Fretful and restless all day, found red nowhere, [11]. ► Quiet
fretfulness; he is vexed at everything which even does not concern him, [8]. ►
*Fretful and disinclined for mental work (after two hours), [5]. ►
Fretful and lachrymose, [12]. ► Every word vexes her; she cries even if
one only speaks to her, [1]. ► Quarrelsome mood and yet lively, [13]. ►
(Hypochondriac mood; everything seems indifferent to him; he would
rather die), [1]. ► Alternations of mood, at first joyous,
then anxious, at last quiet and contented, [11]. [The first mood is a transient reaction of
the organism from one of fear and depression; afterwards, the primary
action of the drug is again noticed in the anxiety, after which the
reaction of the organism is again seen, and the quiet contented mood
remains. -Hahnemann.] ► Intellectual.
► Dulness of mind, that keeps him
from every work, [1]. ► Even attractive things made no impression
upon him, [1]. [30.] ►
*Disinclination for earnest work, [5]. ► He is
mentally exhausted, has no desire to think, is not inclined to thought,
and is indifferent to his surroundings, [5].
► On attempting to grasp an idea, it
vanishes, [1]. ► He does not know whether the things which
are presented to him are from out of his memory, are real, or whether he
is only dreaming of them, from 5 to 7 P.M., [1]. ►
Thoughts disappear whenever he attempts to think or speaks of any
subject, and if any one interrupts him or changes to another subject,
he, for the moment, forgets, or cannot at all collect his thoughts, [4]. ►
The thoughts disappear (memory disturbed by fantasies); whenever he
reflects upon anything numerous and confused subjects crowd upon him, so
that he cannot collect his thoughts, and forgets entirely of what he was
thinking, [4]. ► *Weakness of memory; a few minutes after reading
anything, he can recollect it only dimly, and whenever he thinks of
anything, the sense escapes him, and he is scarcely able to recall it
after long reflection, [8].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, as in coryza, [13].
► The head is very confused, in the
morning, with constrictive pressure in the vertex (after four days), [3]. ►
Vertigo; he runs against a door in walking, [1]. [40.] ► Vertigo while lying in bed, in the
evening, as if everything were turning around, [1]. ► Vertigo
on stooping and suddenly turning the head; everything turned about in a
half circle (only once), [1]. ► Vertigo, as if stupefied, in the house,
not in the open air, [1]. ► Whirling vertigo, especially while
sitting, relieved by walking about (after one hour), [2]. ►
Whirling in the forehead and dulness in the head (after five hours), [12]. ►
Dizziness (after eight hours and a half), [5].
► General Head. ► When bending the head forward, it falls
forward almost involuntarily, while sitting (after ten hours), [3]. ►
Dulness of the head, as if vertigo would occur, while standing and
talking, lasting a long time, [7].
► Dulness and heaviness of the head
(after half an hour), [7]. ► The head is constantly dull and the
spirits depressed, [10]. [50.] ►
Dulness of the head only at intervals; at times the head was quite free
and clear, [1]. ► Heaviness in the head (after seventy-two
hours), [5]. ►
Heaviness of the head and weakness of the cervical muscles; he is
obliged to lean the head backward, or to one or the other side (after
twelve hours), [7]. ► Heaviness lying upon the ethmoid bone in
the head, above the root of the nose, like a compression on both sides, [3]. ►
Heaviness of the head, relieved by resting it upon the hand
(after one hour), [5]. ► Pressure in the brain, especially in the
occiput, towards the bones of the skull, and a pressure as from too
great accumulation of blood, in the evening, before going to bed,
continuing after lying down (after thirty-nine hours), [7]. ► On
motion, headache, as if the whole brain would fall out; even during
rest, sensation as if the brain were pressed together, separated from
the skull and lying loose therein, [1].
► Headache alternately stupefying and
boring, [1]. ►
Aching, like a tingling, in the whole of the head (after five hours), [12]. ►
Violent headache, as if the brain were torn to pieces, in the morning,
immediately after washing, but it afterwards disappeared, with violent
spasmodic yawning, [1]. [60.] ►
*Headache, as if the brain were compressed (mostly in the forehead),
with paroxysms of roaring in the ears, which ceases much sooner than the
headache, [4]. ► Sticking headache all day (after
seventeen days), [1]. ► Pain in the head, as if everything would
come out at the forehead, on stooping (after five hours), [12]. ►
Tearing and pulling from the head down through the cheeks into the teeth
(after thirty-six hours), [12]. ► Tingling and sticking in the whole of the
head, worse on stooping and when walking, in the evening, for several
hours (after thirty-six hours), [12].
► Forehead. ► *Dulness of the head, anteriorly in the middle
of the forehead, in a small spot as large as the tip of the finger,
like a stupefaction; on the street he does not know whether he is going
to the right or left; he is obliged to be very careful, [1]. ►
Headache pressing outward and pressing asunder in the left half of the
forehead (after half an hour), [6].
► *On shaking the head, there is a
sensation in a small spot in the middle of the forehead as if there were
something heavy like a ball of lead in the brain which would not loosen,
[1]. ►
Dull pinching headache in the forehead, with stitches in the temples,
relieved by walking about, but returning on sitting and standing (after
four hours), [13]. ► Drawing pressure in the forehead from
time to time, [7]. [70.] ►
Pressure above the right eye, behind the brow, as from something hard, [3]. ►
*Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the forehead,
worse on moving the head and on standing up, [11]. ►
Violent tearing pressure through the left half of the brain, especially
violent in the forehead, gradually increasing and gradually diminishing
(after fifty-four hours), [6]. ► Hard pressure in the right side of the forehead,
[8]. ►
Dull, painful, at times sticking, pressure from within outward, at first
in the whole of the forehead, afterwards only in the left frontal
eminence, which disappears during rest, but returns more violent on
motion (after four hours), [7]. ► Drawing, cutting tearing in the side of
the forehead, [11]. ► Tearing in the forehead, in the evening,
while sitting; on stooping, a sticking in it, relieved by walking, [1]. ►
Pressive sticking and drawing pain in the left side of the forehead
(after two hours), [11]. ► *A pressing-boring stitch, lasting for a minute,
in the morning, from within outward, in the left half of the forehead,
so violent that it awoke him twice (after twenty-two hours
and a half), [6]. ► Burning stitches on the frontal bone
externally, [3]. [80.] ►
Sudden stitches in the upper part of the forehead, so that he started
up, [3]. ►
Temples. ► Hard pressure in
the head, in the region of the right temporal bone and on the vertex,
[3]. ►
Pressive pain in the left temple internally and externally, as from
pressing hard with the finger (after one hour and a half), [8]. ►
Burning-pressive tearing in the right temple, close to the eye (after
seven hours), [6]. ► Drawing-tearing sticking in the left
temple, as if in the bone, pulsative and persistent (after forty hours);
on the next day it returned at the same time, now in the left, now in
the right temple, then in the left frontal eminence, less violent,
continuing for several days, [7]. ► Stitches in the left temple, [1]. ►
Sharp, burning, needlelike stitches in the left temple, [4]. ►
Dull stitches in the right temple, internally and externally, as if the
bones would be pressed out, aggravated by touch, [8]. ►
Vertex and Parietals. ►
Headache in the vertex like a constriction from all sides and pressure, [3]. ►
Sharp pressure on the vertex at times, [3].
[90.] ►
A boring stitch from within outward in the vertex (after fifty-six
hours), [5]. ►
Some large dull stitches extending from the skull into the brain in the
vicinity of the crown, together with external soreness in the spot,
especially when touched, [1]. ► Sensation of soreness in the right
parietal bone only when touched; he is unable to lie on the right side
in the night on account of the pain (after eighty hours), [4]. ►
Burning-pressive pain in the left parietal bone, just above the ear,
extending inward (after two hours and a half), [6]. ►
Burning-sticking pain in the left parietal bone, [8]. ► Occiput.
► Feeling as if the occiput were
compressed internally and externally, [8]. ► A heavy
pressing-asunder pain in the occiput while walking in the open air
(after half an hour), [6]. ► Rheumatic pressive drawing in the
occiput, commencing at the articulation, on bending the head forward, [3]. ►
Painful drawing on and beneath the occiput, persistent on every motion
of the head (after ten minutes), [8].
► Transient burning stitches in the
occiput, on the first day extending from the right to the left side, on
the following days from below upward, [2].
► External Head. [100.] ► The hair of the head falls out profusely,
[1]. ►
The hair can be pulled from the head with little effort, without pain
(after four hours), [5]. ► *An itching scurfy eruption on the scalp and
also above and behind the ear, [1].
► Tearing in the head externally and
in the teeth, [1]. ► Painful drawing in several places in the head
externally, aggravated by touch, [8]. ► *Itching on
the scalp, [1]. ► *Great itching on the scalp, which was scurfy
and moist, [1]. ► Itching, like needle stitches, on the
scalp, and fine papular eruption anteriorly towards the forehead, [3]. ►
*Fine burning needle stitches externally on the vertex, [3]. ►
*Itching biting on the scalp, which was aggravated by rubbing, lasting
several days, [7]. [110.] ►
Biting itching over the whole occiput, which obliges scratching, but is
rather aggravated than relieved thereby (after fourteen
hours), [7]. ► *Biting itching on the upper part of the
occiput, with sore pain, recurring in the same place about the same
time, in the evening, [7].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► The eyes lie
excessively deep, with blue raised rings around them, as after great
excesses, lasting four days, [12].
► The right eye is much larger than
usual (more widely opened), (after seventy-eight hours), [3]. ►
Inflammation of the white of the eye, with pain, [1]. ►
At night, dry matter collects upon the lashes and in the outer canthus;
in the open air, the matter from the eyes also dries and causes tension,
[1]. ►
The eyes close at times, though he is not sleepy, [3]. ► Subjective.
► *Dryness of the eyes, lasting all day
(after thirteen hours), [7]. ► *The eyes are dry, in the morning on waking,
with pressure in them, so that she cannot open them without assistance, [1]. ►
*The eyes are dry, in the evening, with pressure in them, [1]. [120.]
► Burning pressive sensation about
the left eye (after four hours), [6].
► Pressure in the eye; she was
frequently obliged to wink, [1]. ► When reading, the eyes soon begin to ache
(especially in the afternoon); a biting and burning, and then they
discharge some biting drops; he is obliged to avoid the light, because
it makes them pain sooner, [1]. ► The eyes feel as if full of sleep, [1]. ►
Coarse stitches in the eyes on exerting them, [3]. ► Orbit.
► Pain in the upper wall of the right
orbit, just behind the eye, pressing the eye downward, lasting a long
time and frequently recurring (after ten days), [7]. ► Heavy
pressure above the right orbit in the open air (after three hours and a
half), [6]. ►
Pressure above the right eye and a drawing upward, [3]. ► Lids.
► The inner canthi are agglutinated,
in the morning, [1]. ► Dry matter constantly collects in the
inner canthus, which he is frequently obliged to remove, during the day,
[1]. [130.]
► Pain, more biting than itching, in
the left inner canthus, [1]. ► A not disagreeable burning in the right
outer canthus, extending rather far back behind the eye towards the ear,
and recurring by paroxysms (after one hour and a half), [12]. ► A
biting-smarting pain in the inner canthi, [1]. [In a man who had never had any trouble with
his eyes. -Hahnemann.] ► A
constrictive sensation in the upper lid, that forces out tears, [1]. ►
*Pain as if a hard substance were lying beneath the left upper lid
(after thirteen hours), [5]. ► *Pressure in the upper lid all day, worse on
closing the eye, [1]. ► Hard pressure in the inner canthus of the
right eye, [3]. ► Tearing pressure in the outer canthus and
in the region of the lachrymal gland (after seventy-two hours), [3]. ►
Violent sharp-cutting pain beneath the left upper lid (after
seventy-five hours), [5]. ► A tensive stitch in the outer canthus of
the right eye (after three hours and three-quarters), [5]. [140.] ► *Itching on the margin of the upper lid in the
open air, recurring after two hours in the other eye,
relieved by rubbing (after three-quarters of an hour), [10]. ►►
*Itching of the margins of the lids (after two hours), [1]. ►
Violent itching in the inner canthus, most severe in the open air; is
obliged to rub it, [1]. ► Lachrymation. ►
Biting water runs from the eyes, in the morning, [1]. ► Ball.
► Pressive pain in the upper part of
the right eyeball (after three hours and a half), [6]. ►
Sticking thrusts in the eyeball, as if it would burst (after one hour
and a half), [3]. ► Pupil. ►
Dilatation of the pupils, [1];
(after twenty-six hours), [11];
(first days), [12]. ► Pupils greatly dilated for many hours,
[12]. ►
Pupils contracted (after half, and one hour), [11]. ► The
pupils are contracted (after half an hour), after which they are greatly
dilated, [13]. ► Vision. [150.]
► Dimness of vision, as if the eyes
were full of water, with itching and fine sticking in the inner canthus,
compelling him to rub them, [1]. ► The eyes are dim and so hot that the
eyeglasses are dim, [1]. ► Vision dim for near and distant objects
(after ten hours), [7]. ► Illusion of vision; on rising from a seat
he seems to himself much larger than natural, and everything beneath him
seems too low down (after twenty-six hours), [3]. ► When
reading, it seems as if small black lightnings passed between the
letters, and then whole lines vanished, [1].
► While looking in the open air,
black lightnings passed at times in front of the eyes, like a kind of
flickering, [1]. ► She saw a flame of fire before the eyes
when in bed in a dark night, [1]. ► While looking, a white veil seems to
extend over the object and renders it invisible, [1]. ► A halo
is seen about the candlelight, in the evening, [1].
EAR.
►
External. ► Pinching
burning-pressive pain on the left concha posteriorly (after eight
hours), [6]. ► Middle. [160.]
► Sensation of coldness streaming
into the right meatus auditorius like a cool breath, lasting several
hours, [12]. ►
(Drawing pain in the ear), [1]. ► A pinching and twinging in the left ear, [1]. ►
Dull but deep stitches, within the ear, first the left then the right, [1]. ►
A dull painful stitch, deep in the right ear, in the evening (after
forty-eight hours), [10]. ► A stitch in the left ear (after
thirty-one hours), [5]. ► A tensive stitch in the left ear
(after eight hours and a half, and thirty-six hours), [5]. ► Hearing.
► Ringing in the left ear (after four
hours and a half), [10]. ► Ringing in one or the other ear, on
moving the head, which disappears during rest (after two hours and
three-quarters), [11]. ► At times slight reports in both ears, as
if wind blew into them, without diminished hearing, [3].
NOSE.
[170.]
► Sneezing, with coryza, [1]. ►
Frequent sneezing, without coryza (after two, and ten hours),
[11]. ►
Sudden violent coryza, with catarrhal voice, lasting a quarter of an
hour, at 2 P.M., [1]. ► Violent coryza, without cough, [1]. ►
Violent coryza; tickling in the nose and sneezing, with discharge at one
time of profuse mild watery liquid, at another of thick mucus,
afterwards of thick slimy substances, [12].
► Violent fluent coryza; one nostril
is stopped, the other is not, with frequent sneezing, lachrymation and
cracked lips (after three, and four days), [10]. ► Coryza; at
first discharge of only thick mucus, afterwards of thin water
(after four days), [8]. ► (Stoppage of the nose, in the evening, so
that she could get not air through it, made talking difficult), [1]. ►
The nose is sore internally, with a scab deep internally, [1]. ► A sore
pain on the cartilage in the septum of the left nostril, as if it would
suppurate, when touched, [4]. [180.] ►
Smarting pain in one nostril, as if it were very much ulcerated, [1]. ►
Itching in the left nostril, which disappears on touch (after
seventy-eight hours), [5].® 2000
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